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...eagerness to condemn a right-wing organization, the staff has forgotten one of the first rules of journalism: unsigned staff pieces represent the opinion of the publication; signed pieces represent only the view of the author. The article in Peninsula, offensive as it may be, was the work of only one person, and therefore only he should be held accountable for that article, as the author himself pointed out in a letter to The Crimson last week. To argue about the use of the word "we" is to blur a line which is inherently very clear: individuals are responsible...
...they they want to affirm staff opinions. Each of these other editors does not, however, have either the right, time or interest to read over every single opinion aired by a Crimson columnist. Would the staff be willing to apply the same standards to itself as it does to Peninsula members? We don't think...
...weeks ago a swastika, drawn on a piece on looseleaf paper, was taped to the door of an Eliot House suite. Residents of the room interpreted the swastika as a message for Jose M. Padilla '97, a member of the ultra-conservative campus publication Peninsula...
...Peninsula is an ideological oddity; a self-contained school of thought that believes that the ultimate truth of the universe is known only to those who think exactly as its members do. Its core beliefs seem to be comprised of a heavy dose of fundamentalist Christianity mixed with supply-side economics, and topped off by a paranoid hostility toward anything different. We gaze in collective wonderment as it recklessly attacks gays, women and anyone less conservative than itself...
...thing I pray we all learned from the recent Peninsula uproar is that no matter how frightening or wrongheaded we considered Christopher Griffith's article to be, we never doubted his right to write it. Let us fight this, not for Mr. Kirtley, for us, students with voices, students who will be heard. --Sozi T. Sozinho...